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MADRIGAL by CHARLES COTTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: TO BE A WHORE, DESPITE OF GRACE
Last Line: GOOD COUNSEL AND AN UGLY FACE.
Subject(s): PROSTITUTION; HARLOTS; WHORES; BROTHELS;

To be a whore, despite of grace,
Good counsel and an ugly face,
And to distribute still the pox,
To men of wit
Will seem a kind of paradox;
And yet
Thou art a whore, despite of grace,
Good counsel and an ugly face.



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